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Meanings of posterity in English
Portuguese
posteridade Synonyms
Examples for "descendants"
Examples for "descendants"
1
In ethnicity subgroup analysis, similar results were especially indicated in African descendants.
2
The ancestral group was small and local; the descendants are widely spread.
3
The patricians were the descendants of the original founders of the city.
4
Despite this, descendants still volunteered for service during the World War II.
5
The descendants of the Pilgrims are thoroughly interested in our missionary work.
1
He conceived progeny in himself; with his mouth he created the gods.
2
Several progeny were virus-positive at 6 months of age, suggesting viral persistence.
3
The parent had not the peculiarity of the variety, the progeny has.
4
We have lived since puberty for the biological purpose of creating progeny.
5
This group consists of transplants of root progeny from the parent bush.
Usage of posterity in English
1
Poultices do sometimes choke swine; tulips reduce posterity; causes leather to resist.
2
Today, her papers are held for posterity at the University of Nevada.
3
The nobles of the land are bound in honour to their posterity.
4
Health and posterity are the portion of the poor- Imeanthe laborious.
5
The others were tainted by posterity's view of the composer's terminal illness.
6
The project, produced by director Ridley Scott, clearly has posterity in mind.
7
Writer thinks posterity would be badly served if historians accepted this view.
8
The architect who planned it should receive the execration of all posterity.
9
The love of posterity is a consequence of the necessity of death.
10
Saracco: Saracco: very possibly a strip of the posterity of cut-throat Moors.
11
General Clergerie, Chief of Staff to Gallieni told the story for posterity.
12
Dispassionate posterity may, nevertheless; hesitate to subscribe unreservedly to this favorable opinion.
13
They systematically dispossessed less privileged men of their genetic share of posterity.
14
May the benefits of a raised social consciousness be reaped for posterity.
15
Few fields of endeavour are more obsessed with posterity than literary culture.
16
His desire is to live, and to leave his posterity in quietness.
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Posterity through the time
Posterity across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common